Tuesday, December 22, 2009

ScriptChat will be taking the night of December 27th off for the holidays, but have no fear; we’re giving you a special New Year’s treat!

With great delight, we will return to ScriptChat Sunday,January 3, 2010 with a special guest tweeter... drumroll… @GoldenAgeofGeek, Michael Lee. It gets better… drumroll… Michael will be guesting at both our EURO and American timeslots! Brave man. He will be our first official guest "speaker," of which we hope will be a long string of great minds. Since this format is a new experiment for us, we ask you bring a side of patience to go with your tequila.

#scriptchat TOPIC:

how to make your script stand out and get read by the right people in industry. Contests vs direct queries.

In an effort to have some order over the barrage of questions thrown at him (and to save his API so he doesn’t get slammed in Twitter jail), we’ve decided to ask people to leave a question in the comment section below.

Here's how it'll work:

- Leave your questions in the comment section below daysbefore the chat, and we will post them Q&A style on this blog before the chat begins (if possible, post them in 140 characters... including "RT @yourname:" so we may easily post them live at chat)

- Come to #scriptchat on January 3rd, and we'll have Michael discuss some of the ideas raised in the Q&A as well as take a handful of follow-up questions.

Don’t worry, our normal chat feeling won’t be ruined. Michael will still be taking questions in real-time, but if it’s one he’s already answered, the ScriptChat treefort founders will direct you to the blog. We also expect you’ll eat up his answers with a ravenous passion and spew follow-up questions from your little fingers.

So, start beating your heads against your desks and come up with some thought-provoking questions to post below. Let’s pick his brain until there are no cells left!

Please don’t wait until the last minute to post your questions or they may not get answered. Also, please visit Michael's blog: Screenwriting Foxhole!

See you on January 3rd! Please, don’t forget to check the blog Q&A before the chat.

Sunday, December 20, 2009

#scriptchat TOPIC: The First 10 Pages: What info must be included & conveyed and how to get the reader past p. 10

The crowd ran wild, as usual, and many new faces tonight… welcome! Yet again, wthashtag transcript site failed me (at least they’re consistent, right?). So you are pained to read the transcript backwards. Please scroll down for the EURO chat at the bottom and read backwards. By the way, just because we label it “EURO” doesn’t mean Americans/Canadians or anyone can’t chat at that time slot too. All are welcome at any time. It’s the same topic at both chats. The more that join, the more we learn. Many of you do both chats already… and we thank you!@jeannevb